That's all we need, one more day where kids don't go to school, and yet most of us still have to go to work (since most of us aren't government employees).
The problem isn't vendor fragmentation. The problem is vendor laziness. If you produce an Android device there is no legitimate why you can't provide regular updates.
I'm not disagreeing with your main point, but you have to admit that there are a couple of legitimate reasons for not providing updates: * Android 2.3 is for single core phones (single core phones are not going away anytime soon since manufacturers are still making them for some carriers) * Android 3.x is for some tablets & google TV (a better name for it should have been Android 2.3 tablet edition) * Android 4.x is for multi-core devices (but even then, if your device wasn't the latest multi-core, avoiding 4.1 and waiting for 4.2 instead was preferable)
Furthermore, security updates are in a completely different category. Carriers do provide over-the-air security updates assuming a flaw is serious enough. It just doesn't necessarily mean that they'll update you to the most recent version of Android. In that regard, Apple is the exact same way. If a security flaw is found, Apple will fix it with an update, sometimes long before there is a next major release.
As usual, the summary is click-baiting us a little bit.
The pen is only supposed to vibrate if a little kid/toddler presses too hard with it. In that context, that kind of instant feedback could make sense. One could put a blinking light on it when it's pressed too hard, but that little light would hardly stop a little kid from continuing to press too hard.
-1 troll. I guess I deserved that. I didn't cite any of my sources.
By comparison, BES email is encrypted by default wit AES. Good luck brute-forcing that.
If you're the US government, you can just ask for the key. You wouldn't need to brute-force anything.
"If you’re a BES user, your IT department has the option of encrypting the body — not the the PIN — of your PIN-to-PIN BBM messages with a key unique to the company. By default, however, BBM messages are not encrypted because it restricts PIN-to-PIN BBM communication to only employees of the company, instead, they are scrambled. Scrambling is done with a universal cryptographic key that every BlackBerry has." [source]
Besides if you're not an Enterprise user:
"Your emails between your BlackBerry and the BlackBerry Internet Service are not encrypted. Unlike BlackBerry to BlackBerry communication on BES, BIS email messages are not encrypted before they travel over a mobile carrier’s network. For BIS users, only the mobile carrier’s standard 3G/2G protection applies. " [source]
That does not negate what I said. I also never implied that Austria and Turkey were part of Echelon. Here is the citation for the French government. I also believe Germany and Sweden have issued similar statements.
Blackberry's name is built on security for those messages.
Which is a fallacy.
By default, large enterprise-level organizations end up not setting up their own encryption key on BBMs, because if they did, their messages couldn't be read outside of their organization. Unfortunately, their BES system is not smart enough to specially encrypt only some messages, and not encrypt others. The same goes for non-Enterprise BBM users, their BBMs do not get any protection aside from the one default encryption key which is used by all Blackberry servers and therefore can be read by any and all Blackberry phones.
Combine that with the fact that Blackberry centralizes all emails and BBMs to go through its own centralized servers in Canada, the UK, the US, and Australia, even if you're just sending a BBM to a person sitting across from you in a non-Anglo country. And it's no wonder that several European countries believe that RIM (now Blackberry) is just a front for the US/UK/Canadian/Australian Echelon program.
Yes, exactly. The reason her ebook was taken down was because the company filed a DMCA takedown (which really doesn't apply in this case, so it's invalid). That's why this DMCA request needs to be taken off the table through a counter notice.
Yet, either way Amazon will be the one getting sued by one or both of these people.
Why? Amazon is just neutral territory.
The author just needs to file a DMCA counter-notice, and that will be the end of the involvement of Amazon.
Then, it will be up to the UK-based company to sue the book author directly, for trademark infringement instead of copyright infringement (assuming they're even willing to go that far, because if they sue, they will probably lose -- so it's really not in their interests to sue). The author should just ask them if she can license the trademark for $1 in perpetuity for her existing ebook and try to settle this matter quietly out of court.
This is ridiculous. If I were her, I'd call up the company and ask them if I could license their trademark for my existing book for $1 in perpetuity. This would resolve the issue of them being forced to defend their trademark.
If that didn't work, I'd remove the book from Amazon UK, because I wouldn't want to be sued in the UK by this UK-based company, but then I'd file a counter-DMCA takedown on Amazon - US?
I don't know if this is good legal advice. I'm not a lawyer. But this is what I would do if I had a ebook under my name. Either that, or since it's a ebook, I would just rename the book and just do like Prince did and append at the end of its name (formerly known as "Spots the Space Marines")
Could this also be a case of anti-DMCA activism, where someone is fabricating this scenario just to demonstrate how abusable the system is?
No, it's an Indian medical researcher who hired a reputation management company to downplay the fact that he was thrown out of Duke for lying on his resume and falsifying cancer research results.
Of course if it's not, I'm sure this will give some people that kind of idea.
There is no need for activism in that area. Using a DMCA request for trying to take down content that affects your reputation is a very common tactic. Most of the time, it doesn't do anything because the content is posted by back up after a little while.
In this case however, the reputation management company was smart enough to post duplicated content first. This means that the primary content may be dinged automatically by the google bot as a plagiarizer if it thinks the content was posted in India first, and so the google ranking of that content may be permanently affected as a result. Hopefully, the google bot is smart enough to figure out what truly happened.
Either way, because of the Streisand effect, I wouldn't want to be that Anil Potti right now.
Don't let the name, nor their tag line, confuse you.
Here is the list of actual forums he gives as examples:
There's an amazing depth of information on forums.
* A 12 year old girl who finds a forum community of rabid enthusiasts willing to help her rebuild a Fiero from scratch? Check. * The most obsessive breakdown of Lego collectible minifig kits you'll find anywhere on the Internet? Check. * Some of the most practical information on stunt kiting in the world? Check. * The only place I could find with scarily powerful squirt gun instructions and advice? Check. * The underlying research for a New Yorker article outing a potential serial marathon cheater? Check.
Well, Discourse should get rid of some of my favorite annoyances about forums like/.
Do you really think so? Did you take a look at it? What's the point of putting all those avatar pictures on each row? Each forum row looks too busy as it is. And why are they trying to do everything with Javascript? In my opinion, they're just repeating the mistake of Slashdot in that area.
Hopefully, they'll listen to user feedback, and iterate away from what they have now. Their forum is not bad, but for now it's not that great either.
A couple of things are missing:
Technical articles and opinions should have a level of proof and logic behind them. Incomplete arguments should be noted, and invalid arguments should be immediately identifiable. Furthermore, authors should be forced to stand on the merits of their arguments rather than some alleged claim to authority such as, "I've been a teacher at a major University for 15 years..." And they should be forced to create psudonyms that don't imply and opinion. (For instance, no one named "Alexander Hamilton" should be allowed on the forum, and certainly not to comment on the Federal Budget.)
Do you think your advice would also apply to a forum on Legos or Barbie dolls?
Kickstarter businesses, by definition, are almost always going to be the worst of the worst simply because of the nature of funding. The company founders couldn't borrow the money, they couldn't get anybody to invest, so they ultimately end up on Kickstarter, begging for handouts from the clueless general public.
Just scratch the surface a little bit, and you'll find that 99% of the kickstarters projects that get funded in the first place are started by people that already have a very large audience and an existing reputation of some kind.
Now I'm not saying that the clueless general public won't invest in those types of projects, but generally speaking, the clueless general public tend not to invest in a project unless many other people have invested in it already. That's why having a core audience that already believes in you is crucial in getting the initial momentum going. Kickstarters is definitely not as easy as you think.
Hey Google, If you want the feature to work that way, you needed to GET PERMISSION FROM EVERYONE BEFORE INFRINGING THEIR COPYRIGHTS. Fuck you and your opt-out "let's piss off everyone, then apologize until we get our way", Facebook feature roll-out model.
This was tried before. It just wasn't practical at all. If search engines had waited until they got permission from everyone before they could index everyone's public content, most public government sites, most public newspaper sites, most public personal web sites, etc. would have been excluded by default.
The advantage and the problem with the http protocol is that it's copy-agnostic. And if you really want to control the dissemination of your content, you better put it behind a wall of some kind. Don't post it publicly and then complain that people/bots made copies of it. That just goes against the nature of the public internet.
Also, don't imply that you need to set a different opt-out text/xml file for each search engine. If you do an opt-out for Google, it will work equally well for other search engines. And doing a granular optout is actually very little work to do for someone who's trying to make money from their own web site.
And finally, please don't try to take advantage of the public nature of the public internet and then complain about that very nature. The internet was created for sharing content. There is a reason you're on the public decentralized internet now, and not on the privately centralized walled garden of AOL, Prodigy, or Minitel.
What are the repercussions or ramifications of you writing back,
"Fuck you, we're not going to play this game."
Serious question.
He says the letter was certified. Does it mean he actually signed for the letter himself? Because acknowledging the receipt of that letter wouldn't be a good idea, especially since that patent expires in April of this year.
Generally speaking, it's always better to keep quiet, than to send back profanity, because by sending back that note, you'd not only be acknowledging that you received the letter, but you'd be implying that you're using Wi-fi.
Another thing he should try to do is see if anyone else received the same letter, and what they did about it. That means he should try a couple of exact Google string searches, in Incognito Mode, on a couple of unique strings in the letter he received.
Also, he should check if the law firm/lawyer(s) in question is certified by a State Bar Association.
The New York Times is the one doing the complaining / the click-baiting. One of the reasons she published her revenue breakdown was to show that it was indeed possible to earn decent money as an independent even if she wasn't one of the big stars.
If those percentages are correct based on 0.89% being $1652.74 from pandora alone in 6 months.
100/0.89=112.36*1652.74=$185,701.86 salary in 6 months, making it $371,403.72 annual salary....
Do not confuse annual salary with annual revenue. She has to hire her own crew, technicians, pay for her own airfare, do marketing, etc.
That being said, you're right she does make a decent income.
Um, if 6 months of pandora is $1,652.74 and it's.89% of her income then she's pulling down more than 300k a year. Am I doing the math wrong?
That sounds plausible.
"Her self-produced album One Cello x 16: Natoma has four times made it to #1 on the iTunes"
300k a year minus business expenses
"While that is significant, I haven’t finished tallying the hefty expenses yet. Live performance is usually my revenue stream with the highest expense ratio: flights, hotel rooms, commissions, crew, advertising, etc"
At least, she doesn't seem to be complaining.
"It takes a lot of work but I can support my family on music, take them with me on tour and don’t worry much about money. "
"...to incorporate the needs of artists, not just record labels. What are those needs? Linking of avid listeners with artists for concert tickets, merch, music purchases, etc; crowdsourcing tours; providing listener stats and location data, maybe even emails; your idea here, etc, etc. Lift all the little boats. If this quixotic strategy doesn’t work, then I guess I’ll have to change my perception instead.
I was disappointed in the NYTimes article.like I’m often disappointed in the press. A 30 minute interview full of nuance squashed down to one sentence taken out of context and used to prove some other point. I know, I know, I’m naive. I’ll keep trying." http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/
Here is her revenue breakdown:
45.55% Music sales 26.38% Live Performance 23.90% Sync/Master Licensing 2.69% ASCAP 0.89% Soundexchange (i.e. Pandora) 0.38% Spotify 0.21% Google Adsense http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/
No wonder she's trying to use streaming to try to maximize her other much more significant revenue sources.
Imagine connecting with your oven from your smartphone to adjust the roast's cooking time. When dinner is ready to serve, the oven can notify the chef via text message or push notification, not to mention nag your family on their mobile devices to call them to dinner.
My oven just beeps when it needs to notify me that it finished pre-heating. And it just beeps when it finishes baking something and turns itself off. It also has a convenient oven light that I can manually turn on and off, that acts as an in-context reminder that I may still have something in the oven even thought the oven turned itself off.
In this day of information overload, there is no need to clutter up my cell phone with one more type of notification/reminder, nor is there a need to make the oven configuration UI panel more complex than it needs to be. The same goes for my house guests/family. I don't need to clutter up their sms/inbox either. I don't live in a five story mansion. I can usually hear the beep just fine. And if I want to eat with my family, I can just tell them, or yell at them, assuming they even want to eat with me. Worst case scenario, if my family and my house get large enough, I'll get an intercom for the rooms I can't easily reach. Furthermore, I wouldn't want them to be accidentally notified of the oven finishing, when they're away from the house on some other business. Nor would I want my family to be notified when the oven is finished, but the dinner is not fully prepared yet. There is actually time between the time that an oven finishes and that the table is set up with all that's needed.
With notifications, the only type that I may want, may be from my washer/dryer, but that's only because they're a bit out of the way, and I can't easily hear their buzzer when they finish (nor do I walk in front of those appliances unless I'm using them, so sometimes I need to be reminded I have something in them). But even there, I'd try to minimize the number of notifications/reminders as much as possible. For instance, it would be nice if it didn't sent me a notification to me if I picked up my clothes quickly enough, and it would be nice if it was smart enough not to notify me during some hours where I already left for work, or during the hours when I'm usually sleeping.
Home chefs can access the Dacor Discovery IQ Cooking Application and Guide, suggests Dacor, while simultaneously downloading other popular applications through the Google Play Store, researching new recipes, or viewing cooking video demonstrations wirelessly through a home Wi-Fi network.
Honestly, I already have a tablet for that. And there are already plenty of apps that duplicate the functionality of their application, and that probably already do a very good job of it. What are they doing wasting their resources on this?
Having a tablet built-in into the oven would make things really counter-productive for me. It's easy for me to replace my tablet, but it would be difficult to replace/upgrade my oven built-in tablet. Furthermore, just like a car manufacturer, I'd never trust an oven manufacturer to keep its paws off the builtin internet-connected tablet of its own manufactured device (nor would I trust that manufacturer to sell me that built-in tablet, nor any of its builtin services at a reasonable price either).
And, of course, should the wall oven encounter a problem or require maintenance, IQ will notify the owner with an error message and send an automated report to Dacor for troubleshooting.
What? Why would I even expect my wall oven to have a problem!?!
If my oven really has a physical problem, I may call a repairman to come in person, but I want to be there when he comes to my place. Please do not automatically assume that what benefits a company will automatically benefit the consumer. This feature for me would just be an anti-feature.
Furthermore, I'm not the most security-conscious person in the world, but in
Ok, so let me get this straight. If I emigrate to the US with my nice shiny new (unlocked, I bought it for £600 from expansys) Samsung Galaxy S3, I would be unable to go to a carrier an get a contract to use it on their network on a pay for calls only basis?
You'd really only have one real option and that's T-Mobile (thank god T-Mobile is still around and their takeover by AT&T was blocked by anti-trust regulations). Your phone could technically be used with AT&T as well, but AT&T wouldn't give you any discount for bringing in your own phone (nor will they give you the option to pay per call basis).
And chances are, you may not even like the coverage area T-Mobile has to offer, or the terms they offer you, so you may end up enrolling with one of the cheaper smaller carriers and end up carrying two phones with you (and only using your Galaxy S3 when you're at coffee shops on free wifi).
Lucky for me as a US citizen, whether at home or abroad, I just tag all my content and my emails with my US social security number and my date of birth.
For phone calls, it does get a little bit trickier, I just say my social security number, my full name, and my date of birth out loud as clearly as I can to every person that I talk to on the telephone. This signals to the NSA that they should just hit the stop recording button, so that they don't accidentally record/transcribe/index my conversation with that person on their Echelon clouds (or that at least if I'm speaking to a foreigner, that they make the effort to filter out my voice from the recording leaving only the voice of the foreigner on there).
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That's all we need, one more day where kids don't go to school, and yet most of us still have to go to work (since most of us aren't government employees).
The problem isn't vendor fragmentation. The problem is vendor laziness. If you produce an Android device there is no legitimate why you can't provide regular updates.
I'm not disagreeing with your main point, but you have to admit that there are a couple of legitimate reasons for not providing updates:
* Android 2.3 is for single core phones (single core phones are not going away anytime soon since manufacturers are still making them for some carriers)
* Android 3.x is for some tablets & google TV (a better name for it should have been Android 2.3 tablet edition)
* Android 4.x is for multi-core devices (but even then, if your device wasn't the latest multi-core, avoiding 4.1 and waiting for 4.2 instead was preferable)
Furthermore, security updates are in a completely different category. Carriers do provide over-the-air security updates assuming a flaw is serious enough. It just doesn't necessarily mean that they'll update you to the most recent version of Android. In that regard, Apple is the exact same way. If a security flaw is found, Apple will fix it with an update, sometimes long before there is a next major release.
As usual, the summary is click-baiting us a little bit.
The pen is only supposed to vibrate if a little kid/toddler presses too hard with it. In that context, that kind of instant feedback could make sense. One could put a blinking light on it when it's pressed too hard, but that little light would hardly stop a little kid from continuing to press too hard.
-1 troll. I guess I deserved that. I didn't cite any of my sources.
By comparison, BES email is encrypted by default wit AES. Good luck brute-forcing that.
If you're the US government, you can just ask for the key. You wouldn't need to brute-force anything.
"If you’re a BES user, your IT department has the option of encrypting the body — not the the PIN — of your PIN-to-PIN BBM messages with a key unique to the company. By default, however, BBM messages are not encrypted because it restricts PIN-to-PIN BBM communication to only employees of the company, instead, they are scrambled. Scrambling is done with a universal cryptographic key that every BlackBerry has." [source]
Besides if you're not an Enterprise user:
"Your emails between your BlackBerry and the BlackBerry Internet Service are not encrypted. Unlike BlackBerry to BlackBerry communication on BES, BIS email messages are not encrypted before they travel over a mobile carrier’s network. For BIS users, only the mobile carrier’s standard 3G/2G protection applies. " [source]
Riiight. That's why Austria & Turkey have certified the blackberry platforrm: http://ca.blackberry.com/business/topics/security/certifications.htmlTurkey & Austria aren't part of Echelon. Look, if you want to criticize the blackberry, at least choose things that are true.
That does not negate what I said. I also never implied that Austria and Turkey were part of Echelon. Here is the citation for the French government. I also believe Germany and Sweden have issued similar statements.
Blackberry's name is built on security for those messages.
Which is a fallacy.
By default, large enterprise-level organizations end up not setting up their own encryption key on BBMs, because if they did, their messages couldn't be read outside of their organization. Unfortunately, their BES system is not smart enough to specially encrypt only some messages, and not encrypt others. The same goes for non-Enterprise BBM users, their BBMs do not get any protection aside from the one default encryption key which is used by all Blackberry servers and therefore can be read by any and all Blackberry phones.
Combine that with the fact that Blackberry centralizes all emails and BBMs to go through its own centralized servers in Canada, the UK, the US, and Australia, even if you're just sending a BBM to a person sitting across from you in a non-Anglo country. And it's no wonder that several European countries believe that RIM (now Blackberry) is just a front for the US/UK/Canadian/Australian Echelon program.
DMCA does not address trademarks.
Yes, exactly. The reason her ebook was taken down was because the company filed a DMCA takedown (which really doesn't apply in this case, so it's invalid). That's why this DMCA request needs to be taken off the table through a counter notice.
Yet, either way Amazon will be the one getting sued by one or both of these people.
Why? Amazon is just neutral territory.
The author just needs to file a DMCA counter-notice, and that will be the end of the involvement of Amazon.
Then, it will be up to the UK-based company to sue the book author directly, for trademark infringement instead of copyright infringement (assuming they're even willing to go that far, because if they sue, they will probably lose -- so it's really not in their interests to sue). The author should just ask them if she can license the trademark for $1 in perpetuity for her existing ebook and try to settle this matter quietly out of court.
This is ridiculous. If I were her, I'd call up the company and ask them if I could license their trademark for my existing book for $1 in perpetuity. This would resolve the issue of them being forced to defend their trademark.
If that didn't work, I'd remove the book from Amazon UK, because I wouldn't want to be sued in the UK by this UK-based company, but then I'd file a counter-DMCA takedown on Amazon - US?
I don't know if this is good legal advice. I'm not a lawyer. But this is what I would do if I had a ebook under my name. Either that, or since it's a ebook, I would just rename the book and just do like Prince did and append at the end of its name (formerly known as "Spots the Space Marines")
Could this also be a case of anti-DMCA activism, where someone is fabricating this scenario just to demonstrate how abusable the system is?
No, it's an Indian medical researcher who hired a reputation management company to downplay the fact that he was thrown out of Duke for lying on his resume and falsifying cancer research results.
Of course if it's not, I'm sure this will give some people that kind of idea.
There is no need for activism in that area. Using a DMCA request for trying to take down content that affects your reputation is a very common tactic. Most of the time, it doesn't do anything because the content is posted by back up after a little while.
In this case however, the reputation management company was smart enough to post duplicated content first. This means that the primary content may be dinged automatically by the google bot as a plagiarizer if it thinks the content was posted in India first, and so the google ranking of that content may be permanently affected as a result. Hopefully, the google bot is smart enough to figure out what truly happened.
Either way, because of the Streisand effect, I wouldn't want to be that Anil Potti right now.
Forgot this one: I think most programmers could improve their programs considerably if they programmed in LISP
... and would read "The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition [Paperback]".
I've done both, but I'm not a great programmer yet.
Don't let the name, nor their tag line, confuse you.
Here is the list of actual forums he gives as examples:
There's an amazing depth of information on forums.
* A 12 year old girl who finds a forum community of rabid enthusiasts willing to help her rebuild a Fiero from scratch? Check.
* The most obsessive breakdown of Lego collectible minifig kits you'll find anywhere on the Internet? Check.
* Some of the most practical information on stunt kiting in the world? Check.
* The only place I could find with scarily powerful squirt gun instructions and advice? Check.
* The underlying research for a New Yorker article outing a potential serial marathon cheater? Check.
Well, Discourse should get rid of some of my favorite annoyances about forums like /.
Do you really think so? Did you take a look at it? What's the point of putting all those avatar pictures on each row? Each forum row looks too busy as it is. And why are they trying to do everything with Javascript? In my opinion, they're just repeating the mistake of Slashdot in that area.
Hopefully, they'll listen to user feedback, and iterate away from what they have now. Their forum is not bad, but for now it's not that great either.
A couple of things are missing:
Technical articles and opinions should have a level of proof and logic behind them. Incomplete arguments should be noted, and invalid arguments should be immediately identifiable. Furthermore, authors should be forced to stand on the merits of their arguments rather than some alleged claim to authority such as, "I've been a teacher at a major University for 15 years..." And they should be forced to create psudonyms that don't imply and opinion. (For instance, no one named "Alexander Hamilton" should be allowed on the forum, and certainly not to comment on the Federal Budget.)
Do you think your advice would also apply to a forum on Legos or Barbie dolls?
Kickstarter businesses, by definition, are almost always going to be the worst of the worst simply because of the nature of funding. The company founders couldn't borrow the money, they couldn't get anybody to invest, so they ultimately end up on Kickstarter, begging for handouts from the clueless general public.
Just scratch the surface a little bit, and you'll find that 99% of the kickstarters projects that get funded in the first place are started by people that already have a very large audience and an existing reputation of some kind.
Now I'm not saying that the clueless general public won't invest in those types of projects, but generally speaking, the clueless general public tend not to invest in a project unless many other people have invested in it already. That's why having a core audience that already believes in you is crucial in getting the initial momentum going. Kickstarters is definitely not as easy as you think.
Hey Google, If you want the feature to work that way, you needed to GET PERMISSION FROM EVERYONE BEFORE INFRINGING THEIR COPYRIGHTS. Fuck you and your opt-out "let's piss off everyone, then apologize until we get our way", Facebook feature roll-out model.
This was tried before. It just wasn't practical at all. If search engines had waited until they got permission from everyone before they could index everyone's public content, most public government sites, most public newspaper sites, most public personal web sites, etc. would have been excluded by default.
The advantage and the problem with the http protocol is that it's copy-agnostic. And if you really want to control the dissemination of your content, you better put it behind a wall of some kind. Don't post it publicly and then complain that people/bots made copies of it. That just goes against the nature of the public internet.
Also, don't imply that you need to set a different opt-out text/xml file for each search engine. If you do an opt-out for Google, it will work equally well for other search engines. And doing a granular optout is actually very little work to do for someone who's trying to make money from their own web site.
And finally, please don't try to take advantage of the public nature of the public internet and then complain about that very nature. The internet was created for sharing content. There is a reason you're on the public decentralized internet now, and not on the privately centralized walled garden of AOL, Prodigy, or Minitel.
What are the repercussions or ramifications of you writing back,
"Fuck you, we're not going to play this game."
Serious question.
He says the letter was certified. Does it mean he actually signed for the letter himself? Because acknowledging the receipt of that letter wouldn't be a good idea, especially since that patent expires in April of this year.
Generally speaking, it's always better to keep quiet, than to send back profanity, because by sending back that note, you'd not only be acknowledging that you received the letter, but you'd be implying that you're using Wi-fi.
Another thing he should try to do is see if anyone else received the same letter, and what they did about it. That means he should try a couple of exact Google string searches, in Incognito Mode, on a couple of unique strings in the letter he received.
Also, he should check if the law firm/lawyer(s) in question is certified by a State Bar Association.
Well, they can, but it won't be legally binding until they get the employees and students to agree to assign their copyrights.
A contract signed by a minor isn't binding!
Hopefully, this is how it works in Canada as well.
You mean like Last.FM does, on all counts?
She does seem to be listed on last.fm
I don't know last.fm, but may be that's where she got the idea.
WTF is she complaining about?
She's not complaining. Read her blog.
The New York Times is the one doing the complaining / the click-baiting. One of the reasons she published her revenue breakdown was to show that it was indeed possible to earn decent money as an independent even if she wasn't one of the big stars.
If those percentages are correct based on 0.89% being $1652.74 from pandora alone in 6 months.
100/0.89=112.36*1652.74=$185,701.86 salary in 6 months, making it $371,403.72 annual salary....
Do not confuse annual salary with annual revenue. She has to hire her own crew, technicians, pay for her own airfare, do marketing, etc.
That being said, you're right she does make a decent income.
Ooops, I made a mistake.
Correction: "Her self-produced album One Cello x 16: Natoma has four times made it to #1 on the iTunes in the Classical Chart"
Um, if 6 months of pandora is $1,652.74 and it's .89% of her income then she's pulling down more than 300k a year. Am I doing the math wrong?
That sounds plausible.
"Her self-produced album One Cello x 16: Natoma has four times made it to #1 on the iTunes"
300k a year minus business expenses
"While that is significant, I haven’t finished tallying the hefty expenses yet. Live performance is usually my revenue stream with the highest expense ratio: flights, hotel rooms, commissions, crew, advertising, etc"
At least, she doesn't seem to be complaining.
"It takes a lot of work but I can support my family on music, take them with me on tour and don’t worry much about money. "
Hardware in spaecraft has to be hardened big time against radiation. Off the shelf junk will NOT work. Just sayin'.
And yet, the HTC Nexus One has passed many of those tests without much problems.
Is negotiating a higher price not possible?
That's not what she's asking for.
This is what she's asking for:
"...to incorporate the needs of artists, not just record labels. What are those needs? Linking of avid listeners with artists for concert tickets, merch, music purchases, etc; crowdsourcing tours; providing listener stats and location data, maybe even emails; your idea here, etc, etc. Lift all the little boats. If this quixotic strategy doesn’t work, then I guess I’ll have to change my perception instead.
I was disappointed in the NYTimes article.like I’m often disappointed in the press. A 30 minute interview full of nuance squashed down to one sentence taken out of context and used to prove some other point. I know, I know, I’m naive. I’ll keep trying."
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Here is her revenue breakdown:
45.55% Music sales
26.38% Live Performance
23.90% Sync/Master Licensing
2.69% ASCAP
0.89% Soundexchange (i.e. Pandora)
0.38% Spotify
0.21% Google Adsense
http://zoekeating.tumblr.com/
No wonder she's trying to use streaming to try to maximize her other much more significant revenue sources.
Imagine connecting with your oven from your smartphone to adjust the roast's cooking time. When dinner is ready to serve, the oven can notify the chef via text message or push notification, not to mention nag your family on their mobile devices to call them to dinner.
My oven just beeps when it needs to notify me that it finished pre-heating. And it just beeps when it finishes baking something and turns itself off. It also has a convenient oven light that I can manually turn on and off, that acts as an in-context reminder that I may still have something in the oven even thought the oven turned itself off.
In this day of information overload, there is no need to clutter up my cell phone with one more type of notification/reminder, nor is there a need to make the oven configuration UI panel more complex than it needs to be. The same goes for my house guests/family. I don't need to clutter up their sms/inbox either. I don't live in a five story mansion. I can usually hear the beep just fine. And if I want to eat with my family, I can just tell them, or yell at them, assuming they even want to eat with me. Worst case scenario, if my family and my house get large enough, I'll get an intercom for the rooms I can't easily reach. Furthermore, I wouldn't want them to be accidentally notified of the oven finishing, when they're away from the house on some other business. Nor would I want my family to be notified when the oven is finished, but the dinner is not fully prepared yet. There is actually time between the time that an oven finishes and that the table is set up with all that's needed.
With notifications, the only type that I may want, may be from my washer/dryer, but that's only because they're a bit out of the way, and I can't easily hear their buzzer when they finish (nor do I walk in front of those appliances unless I'm using them, so sometimes I need to be reminded I have something in them). But even there, I'd try to minimize the number of notifications/reminders as much as possible. For instance, it would be nice if it didn't sent me a notification to me if I picked up my clothes quickly enough, and it would be nice if it was smart enough not to notify me during some hours where I already left for work, or during the hours when I'm usually sleeping.
Home chefs can access the Dacor Discovery IQ Cooking Application and Guide, suggests Dacor, while simultaneously downloading other popular applications through the Google Play Store, researching new recipes, or viewing cooking video demonstrations wirelessly through a home Wi-Fi network.
Honestly, I already have a tablet for that. And there are already plenty of apps that duplicate the functionality of their application, and that probably already do a very good job of it. What are they doing wasting their resources on this?
Having a tablet built-in into the oven would make things really counter-productive for me. It's easy for me to replace my tablet, but it would be difficult to replace/upgrade my oven built-in tablet. Furthermore, just like a car manufacturer, I'd never trust an oven manufacturer to keep its paws off the builtin internet-connected tablet of its own manufactured device (nor would I trust that manufacturer to sell me that built-in tablet, nor any of its builtin services at a reasonable price either).
And, of course, should the wall oven encounter a problem or require maintenance, IQ will notify the owner with an error message and send an automated report to Dacor for troubleshooting.
What? Why would I even expect my wall oven to have a problem!?!
If my oven really has a physical problem, I may call a repairman to come in person, but I want to be there when he comes to my place. Please do not automatically assume that what benefits a company will automatically benefit the consumer. This feature for me would just be an anti-feature.
Furthermore, I'm not the most security-conscious person in the world, but in
Ok, so let me get this straight. If I emigrate to the US with my nice shiny new (unlocked, I bought it for £600 from expansys) Samsung Galaxy S3, I would be unable to go to a carrier an get a contract to use it on their network on a pay for calls only basis?
You'd really only have one real option and that's T-Mobile (thank god T-Mobile is still around and their takeover by AT&T was blocked by anti-trust regulations). Your phone could technically be used with AT&T as well, but AT&T wouldn't give you any discount for bringing in your own phone (nor will they give you the option to pay per call basis).
And chances are, you may not even like the coverage area T-Mobile has to offer, or the terms they offer you, so you may end up enrolling with one of the cheaper smaller carriers and end up carrying two phones with you (and only using your Galaxy S3 when you're at coffee shops on free wifi).
Lucky for me as a US citizen, whether at home or abroad, I just tag all my content and my emails with my US social security number and my date of birth.
For phone calls, it does get a little bit trickier, I just say my social security number, my full name, and my date of birth out loud as clearly as I can to every person that I talk to on the telephone. This signals to the NSA that they should just hit the stop recording button, so that they don't accidentally record/transcribe/index my conversation with that person on their Echelon clouds (or that at least if I'm speaking to a foreigner, that they make the effort to filter out my voice from the recording leaving only the voice of the foreigner on there).